Two Party Good vs. Evil - The Ongoing False Dialog

Now that the sequester has been in effect for a couple of weeks, and the mainstream media has been showing scenes of control towers about to close, please remember that it's just part of a dog and pony show designed to justify the cuts to Social Security and Medicare that the elites of both parties want us to think will fix the deficit. The mass panic that our corporate owned electeds hope will ensue would be caused by the latest false dialog generated by the corporate owned mainstream media lie machine at the behest of, you guessed it, their corporate owners. Those media moguls and their 1% pals hope that it will result in the opportunity to raid Medicare and Social Security to balance the deficit, give themselves a new source of profit and allow them to continue to pay little or no taxes. They know that a good panic will allow our corporate owned electeds to take the first steps in undoing Medicare and Social Security much in the way media lies and selective reporting caused healthcare for all to be diluted into Obamacare.

The mainstream media's constant attempts at stamping out reality are a backdrop to the Executive, Senatorial and Congressional “two” party, good vs. evil, dog and pony show that I like to refer to as The Ongoing False Dialog. Said dog and pony show plays out something like this. Just like in pro-wrestling, our electeds belong to one of two groups, good guy politicians or bad guy politicians. The gimmick that makes the ongoing false dialog thing work is that one voter's good guy is another voter's bad guy. To a Democratic voter, his or her Democratic elected is a good guy and the Republican elected is a bad guy. Vice versa to a Republican voter.

Now that you've got the “two” party good vs. evil scam down, here's how both parties use it against us. The voters of each party have their own red meat issues that they hold near and dear. Our electeds love to use social issues, because championing them, or opposing them costs the corporate interests who own the people who are supposed to represent us nothing. Democratic electeds use issues like being pro-gay rights, pro-women's rights, pro-choice, etc. to get their base feeling good and to distract them from the fact that they are being sold out on food on the table, roof over the head, trip to the doctor's office issues like Social Security, Medicare and healthcare for all. Republican electeds use their bases fear of Gay rights, women's rights, etc. and their fundamentalist religious doctrine to distract from the fact that they are being sold out on the very same bread and butter issues.

Just as one lie invariably leads to another, this ongoing false dialog spawns other false dialogs, which are crafted to accomplish the self-serving goals of our electeds' corporate masters. A prime example of that is the fear stirred up by the GOP and the many ads that shilled for health insurance corps and healthcare corps, while pretending to be from public interest organizations during the healthcare reform debate. That false dialog between the Democrats and the Republicans got the possibility of single payer healthcare for all diluted down to an Obamacare that, while better than nothing, preserves and protects the corporate interests in the healthcare industry. To clear up yet another false dialog, Obamacare does next to nothing to halt America’s upwardly spiraling healthcare costs that are, in reality, caused in a large part by greedy corporate middlemen in the healthcare industry, not an aging baby boomer population using Medicare.Now that I've illustrated the concept of an ongoing false dialog literally destroying our democracy, I am going to close with a good way to counteract it, which is by fighting lies with the truth. The next time you hear a friend or relative parrot a false dialog like Medicare is causing a deficit because of aging baby boomers, use the following counter argument. Medicare uses the very same hospitals, doctors, drug corps and in the case of Medicare Advantage, insurance corps as we do in the general population. As it stands, healthcare is a profit-driven industry with lots of corporate middlemen chasing ever-increasing profits to keep Wall St. happy. That scenario causes ever-increasing healthcare costs, which are then passed along to us and , in some cases have caused bankruptcy, even with health insurance, which is also constantly raising its premiums. Medicare uses the same for profit healthcare industry that we do. If we were to cut out the corporate middlemen and spread out the risk pool to include everyone, by nationalizing the healthcare industry and offering healthcare for all, we would solve the Medicare dilemma and the healthcare dilemma in one shot.The nice thing about the truth is that it makes out and out lies obvious.